Good afternoon from where we left off last time in Rafael Núñez International Airport in Cartagena, Colombia 
now we will be off to Cali for real this time on a new airline for me, JetSmart they are Chilean 
low cost carrier but have subsidiaries in many South American countries with them recently opening JetSmart Colombia we’ll be flying in economy class on their A320neo so I’m super excited to try it out!
Baggage drop was pretty simple and they surprisingly didn’t make us put our backpacks in a size holder since I was pretty convinced my dad’s bag was a bit too big but it’s whatever. Security control in Colombia is really straight forward and we were soon in the departures hall looking for a place to eat we ended up getting Kokoriko and Presto both were really good and one thing I find cool about eating here is that when you order chicken or other meats, they often give you gloves to go all out eating it. While waiting out family meet up with us and we simply just hung around the boarding area until it was time for boarding.
FLIGHT INFO:
Origin: Cartagena Rafael Núñez Airport (SKCG)
Destination: Alfonso Bonilla Aragon International (SKCL)
Flight Time: 1:13
Airbus A320neo (JetSmart)
Server: None (Real Life)
Taking us to Cali this afternoon will be CC-AWV a 2 year old Airbus A320neo delivered to the mainline JetSmart in November 2022 but transferred to the Colombian subsidiary in March 2024 and like frontier, they paint their aircraft will animals on the tails today we are on Vicuna the Llama
This boarding experience was probably the best I’ve had, CTG has no jet bridges so you board/deboard via stairs and our aircraft parked fairly out on the ramp so we walked along the sides seeing the many aircraft here before getting to ours.
JetSmart crams 186 seats on their A320neos across their subsidiaries, they are all 3-3 arranged they are all Recaro SL3710 slimlines. My seat will be 6A which we got for a really good price surprisingly I mean these front seats often don’t provide any extra comfort than the ones in the back compared to the ULCCs in the USA
the seat was okay for this flight but these aircraft also fly to Chile which can take 5 hours and I wouldn’t want to be crammed here for 5 hours. We pushed back on time and backtracked CTGs runway 01 for take off!
Till Wednesday Cartagena!
I really like how it looks when we pass the clouds
We reached our cruising altitude of 37,000ft over the Pamarillo National Natural Park.
One thing that surprised me was that the crew did an inflight service. 3 years ago when I flew another Colombian low cost airline Viva Air there was no service and it was a longer flight. It wasn’t free like I was anticipating and nobody really bought anything but it’s still nice that they came around in the first place and the crew was also pretty nice didn’t talk too much but seemed like nice people so I’ll give them 3 stars 
Like always, I didn’t get the WiFi mostly because it wasn’t available and neither were power ports. Like I said it’s okay if these aircraft only did short haul domestic flights but when you’re stuck here for 5 hours you’d at least appreciate some power but Colombia is already a scenic country so I didn’t matter to me anyways.
¡Hola, Medellin! We’ll be beginning our approach soon, we flew the traditional Cali approach into RWY 02 with going down the valley passing the airport on right downwind and turning right base.
Here we are on final for CLOs RWY 02 and I really like how the landscape looks in the evening especially with the drop in visibility.
TOUCHDOWN! Welcome back to Cali, Colombia
now I set low expectations for JetSmart and they were pretty much meet, I didn’t expect the seats to be too comfortable but sufficient for a short flight, no IFE, no WiFi and no plugs which like I’ve said is fine for a short flight but for a long flight, they should definitely be added. The one shocker though is that the crew did an inflight service which is something I wasn’t truly counting on them to do so I gotta commend them for that. I’m not sure if I’d truly choose JetSmart again since the pricing wasn’t any cheaper than LATAM or Avianca and for another issue we’ll discuss next.
Now a kind of strange thing about Alfonso Bonilla Aragon International Airport is that some of the gates that would normally be reserved for international flights are sometimes used for domestic flights like D16 once we got off the path leading to passport control
was blocked and we were redirected to the domestic section which while not as nice as the international is still pretty decent. Our bag took some time to come out and it was OPEN, we looked through our bag and found out that 2 perfumes had been stolen. We filed a complaint against this and are still awaiting a response. This may drive us away from flying JetSmart in the future but as for myself, nothing got stolen from me, I had a decent experience so I’ll probably consider them in the future. After this scandal we met up with a few cousins and made our way to the farm to drop our stuff off before heading out to the boulevard.
That will be it regarding this flight on JetSmart from Cartagena to Cali, Colombia stay tuned for the flight back to CTG and the YT version of this trip report as well and as always between now and the next time, see you in the sky! 
